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World record holder Rudisha to run 800m in Galway
The event will see the Kenyan race against celebrities over 800m.
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The event will see the Kenyan race against celebrities over 800m.
A compensation deal worth €23.5 million was unveiled. That’s around €4,460 per person – five times the annual salary of a Kenyan civil servant.
No crash-mat, no problem.
Ten of the patients have now returned to the hospital and police said the breakout must have been well planned.
Protests erupted in western Kenya yesterday after a court upheld Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory in the country’s presidential elections.
Lawyers for challenger Raila Odinga argued before the Supreme Court that the election was marred by irregularities.
Uhuru Kenyatta, one of Africa’s richest men, was declared the winner with 50.07 per cent of the vote.
The elections are seen as a crucial test for the country which was hit by violence during the last elections five years ago.
Five years ago, over 500,000 people were displaced and more than 1,500 killed in post-election violence in Kenya. Now, NGOs are working to manage humanitarian situation ahead of the country’s next election this Monday, writes Ivy Ndiewo.
The first independent evaluation of the international scheme shows promise.
The Kenyan legend was in Dublin to attend an event for his mentor Brother Colm O’Connell.
Olympic champion David Rudisha will be in Dublin this week to attend a ceremony honouring the work of Cork missionary Brother Colm O’Connell.
What is it like founding an organisation that offers trade without aid in Kenya? Corkonian James Hennessy, who founded Development Pamoja, tells us.
Both pilots and two German tourists were killed in the crash at Kenya’s Masai Mara national park.
On World Humanitarian Day, Concern Director in Kenya Anne O’Mahony writes from Nairobi on tackling the underlying causes of vulnerability to the worst effects of manmade and natural shocks.
The Kenyan World Champion over 800 metres is in bullish mood ahead of his event on Monday.
Barack Obama’s father could not be traced back to slavery – but nobody had checked the records on his mother’s side…
On his tour of Africa, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore announces €50,000 in funding for a hospital which also offers paediatric heart surgery.
At least 18 people have been killed in the fighting in the south of the country.
The four were working with the Norwegian Refugee Council when they were abducted and one of their colleagues was killed during an ambush last week.
Two churches were targeted in what officials believe were attacks mounted by Somali militants.
US Embassy in Nairobi had warned its citizens on Friday of threat of “imminent” terrorist attack in Mombasa.
US government travel to Mombasa suspended and citizens warned of threat of attack at the popular tourist destination.
US State Dept’s annual report on human trafficking shows progress being made in Burma, while Syria fell in the rankings.
The FBI has joined the investigation into the blast, which ripped through a building full of small shops, wounding 33 people yesterday.
The tournament favourites shook off the disappointment of losing to Namibia and won out comfortably in their second qualifier on Wednesday.
The men have been ordered to stand trial over post-election violence in 2007 and 2008.
Marko Cheseto, 28, of Kenya, disappeared from the university last month. He was suffering from hypothermia and severe frostbite to his feet when he staggered into the lobby of an Anchorage hotel three days later.
UNICEF says it fears for the lives of malnourished children who have been receiving food from its workers, who have been banned by al-Shabab fighters.
Has Ethiopia followed Kenya in sending its troops to tackle Somali insurgents?
Tensions on the Kenya-Somalia border follows a spate of recent kidnappings and the imposition of a Kenyan military force in the region.
But French authorities have denied reports that French naval vessels had carried out attacks near an al-Shabab stronghold.
Kenyan police say they believe Somali militant group al-Shabab is behind the attack, which comes after the group’s recent warning of “bloody battles” which would endanger the lives of civilians.
The fighters displayed around 70 bodies of the troops after a battle in Mogadishu yesterday.
The 66-year-old woman was taken from her rented house on a Kenyan island earlier this month by suspected Somali militants.
India’s Fauja Singh astonished onlookers by achieving the seemingly impossible feat of finishing the race in just over eight hours.
The move comes after a spate of abductions in Kenya that are suspected to involve Somalia’s al-Shabab militants.
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